Think about 1.4 tonight

10.30 start when most casual viewers will be out clubbing, then a clash with Match of the Day as well

think about 1.2 million, 10:30 it too late

436k for live feed last night at 11.30pm is good
was the live feed actually promoted at all?

1.4m for a Saturday? I predict 1m and 1.1m tomorrow. It's going to be s tough weekend with BH.

Monday will be the one to look out for.

To note that last summer first hl show got 1.75m so its 200k down.

think the long gap has ruined ratings as well as the fact its the summer celeb one,

They need a serious review on two CBB's a year.
If they are going to carry on they need to increase the budget. Sorry a lot of these people are a joke being called "celebs".
the guy who's only claim to fame is being the BF of a Fashion designer really is taking this to a new silly level now. We needed some funny people in there.

the other issue why the hell didn't they put Janice in there on launch night? 2 Million viewers so a load of nobodies go in there. You see someone like Janice they know at least some Mania will follow. another launch another balls up because they don't use the assets they have to the maximum.

to give some example of the budget issue Tila got paid 109,000 pounds for one night (MSN reporting though she wont get her fee)

Think they need to keep cbb in winter only. It gets higher ratings and you dont use up all potential celebs quickly by having two celeb series a year.

People assumed the main show would be just a rehash of celebs entering the house.

So, I know we are just 2 ratings in, but update:

Launch- 2.22m
Friday- 1.55m

Predictions over the next few days:

Tonight- 1.02m
Tomorrow- 1.09m
Monday- 1.42m

The weekend will be tough, BH weekend has always been a problem for a lot of shows including BB.

People always say that but in fact the first HL show is usually one of the most watched ones of the entire series, so that will be a problem.

Best time to launch this series would have been Monday, after the Bank Holiday weekend and Monday night everyone is pretty much at home.

wonder what it will do tonight, what does everyone think?

Just over a million including +1, saturday and a late start isn't a good mix.

I think it will be under a million because of the late time-slot. 950k would be my guess.

Is that good or bad for the overnights?

I think it would have been worse without the gap.

The gap was essential for viewers to 'recharge' their interest in watching BB.

I think the mess they made of the cannon task, where they ran out of time nominating Daniel Baldwin to be the third housemate to go to the tower would definitely have an effect on viewers.
I understand completely that to diehard fans it would be nothing as they'd come back for the next show anyway. But for any casual viewer it just looks like extremely shoddy production and would diminish many viewers' confidence in the show's production values.

Such a shame that an episode like this one was shown on the crap Saturday! Tonight would have flopped with it being a Saturday and late!

Should have put it on straight after X Factor

910k inc. +1

Much lower than expected

Jeez, I know that it was on at 10:30pm on a Saturday in BH weekend, but that's still terrible

Tonight will probably be even worse because a lot will be out. Tomorrow we have to hope that it climbs back to the 1.6m+ to avoid it being in dangerous territory.

I've always thought summer CBB was not needed, I'm liking the series, but they should only have CBB on January especially on C5, it's just overkill. Maybe after this series, they should cut it out and just do summer BB and winter CBB.

X Factor started with 7.6m, 2m down on the 9.6m last year, and was the lowest launch since 2006.

Doesn't help they are not allowed to move their new football show, so think we can expect more ratings like this on a Saturday in this series

Saturdays in January will probably be a bit lower as well as the football season reaches the halfway point

Agreed, the football flopped anyway with around 450k before it.

Looking at the rating it is terrible, however, CBBs share was almost 7%, if we think that CBB14 last summer was averaging 1% less on a Saturday (but getting 1.2-1.3m) proves that a lot of people were not home.

Last night climbed to 1.17m with +1, it was 260k on the day before but still poor. However, it is not surprising with Saturday and Sunday being in the Bank Holiday weekend. In theory, just like it always does after a BH weekend, it should climb quite a bit, and I predict around 1.4m-1.5m, if it doesn't climb to that, then we have a bit of a problem.

Predictions:

Tonight- 1.40m
Tomorrow- 1.46m (there's a live show but no eviction?)

a bright spot among the gloom , it's a shame that channel 5 have never valued what live streaming has to offer

i thought launch night would break 2 million as competition appeared to me to be relatively weak
i think the cast is low rent so no surprise ratings so far

whatever the real reason for booting out someone so soon , it's shambolic


its all set in stone now , only interest for me will be the final night rating